Given that this is a structural change, and not an opportunity to say "bring back the old forum" (so I'll think it, but not say it), are there any forum software limitations we should be aware of?
For example, maximum number of stickied threads, whether it's possible for multiple discussion lists per page, if the number of threads displayed per page is configurable, other functional stuff like that.
As you've thrown some numbers out, could you also let us know how many of those 10,000 members have been active this year, and how many unique visitors we have per week?
Brigby said: (No, you cannot nuke all sub-forums, and just leave General Discussion)
This is the best possible solution though. It would require that you install some plugins to track Red posts, etc. but other than that it considerably cuts down on a lot of the admin/maintenance busy work.
Can't do that? Fine, here we go:
Support
- Customer Support
- Bug Report
Development
- Release Notes
- Feedback
Discussion
- General Discussion
- Character Discussion
- Recruitment
Support provides an area for customer support queries and reporting bugs or other issues encountered in the game.
Development provides an area where new and upcoming releases can be announced and discussed. The Feedback here should be pertaining to features, characters, or mechanics which aren't bugged.
Discussion is for everything else. Recruitment needs a separate sub-forum, as do characters.
Dartmaster01 said: I don't think people oppose it. I actually like some of the forum changes but it doesn't change the fact that it seems to be slowly killing the forum. Long time forumites have quit posting and who can blame them when any topic with a good discussion gets moved within two hours, never to be seen again. This doesn't encourage dialogue, it shuts it down. I don't know what the answer is but it's certainly not the heavy hand we've had lately.
You dealt the absolute worst blow to the forum population with that terrible forum design and software.Despite the claims in the first week that design choices would be re-examined we're still stuck with v1 which is a nightmare to use on mobile and a terrible waste of space on PC.
As for putting threads in the appropriate subforums: It's not going to work.There's a reason neogaf has survived for as long as it has - no unnecessary subforums.I'm sure it's nice for you and the devs to have neat little forums with no activity because it's easy to scan for new threads, but that's just not going to work.I've seen it countless times before on forums that are very small - and this one IS very small.Take away the top 20 posters and you're left with nothing but occasional posters who complain about stuff.This is not a forum of 10000 members, this is an echo chamber of 200 people.